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Linked Data - The Long and Winding Road

On June 17-19, 1998 the first meeting of the Dublin Core Datamodel Working Group took place at the offices of OCLC in Dublin, Ohio. We didn’t know it at the time but the meeting represented the first real step on what has since become a long journey undertaken by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative to align itself with the Semantic Web and, in particular, with the RDF model. That journey was used to highlight and discuss some of the issues now faced by the Linked Data community as it seeks to become the de facto approach to sharing data openly on the Web.